Glambert?

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So...I just watched some of the performances at the AMA's that I didn't see. I missed like half of them, haha. And the one that really bothered me was Adam Lambert or "Glambert" Does anyone else have a problem with thisw guy? I mean..he has a superb voice...but other than that...he's atrocious. Did anyone SEE his performance? It disgusted me...

I mean, one can say I am being hypocritical, because I have liked past performances that include half naked people. But I think he took it over the top. It's one thing for him to do it at a concert, I feel it is another to do it on TV where children are going to watch the show. He had men in sort of bondage devices, he humped a bunch of people's faces, made out with his male guitarist. His song's lyrics were pretty much about having intense, rough sex with someone.

I'm all about equality, everyone should know that. I'm a proud lesbian, and I want there to be equality. But this guy, in my opinion, just gives a TERRIBLE face to the gay community. I mean, he is being attacked by the gay community, but at the same time, the community is trying to draw him in to be a face for them, and that is sickening to me. In all honesty, I blame people like him for why people are afraid to give gays certain rights. People outside of the community look in and see people like him, and the people like him that go naked to gay pride parades and they're just thinking, "Those f*aggots are just a bunch of candy a*s' strutting around in their underwear having promiscuous sex on the side of the road spreading HIV, and I don't want my kids to see that or be like that. This is animalistic." I mean, I have heard people say stuff like that because they see so many like "Glambert".

He's gay, we get it. He doesn't need to have men with their junk hanging out, humping their faces and making out with them...I don't want to see that. Even if it was a female artist...I don't want to see it. I mean...there is no art behind that. That is just him trying to show people how gay he is and how "original" he is, and he's a "shock" artist. There's nothing shocking about it...it's just obscene and gross..

So, what does everyone think about him and his performance? People like him?

[Meredith]

Never seen him, sounds like a very sick, sad man if he really needs all that attention..

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He was like..runner up to American idol or something. I just remember that he was on American Idol, and I don't think he won. I dunno. Great voice, could be really talented. But he is soooo concerned with trying to shock people. It's not really shocking...just retarded and offensive.

[Meredith]

Oooooooh. No, he didn't win, my mother's friend's son did... : )

Yeah, I don't like people like that. Like, I love Lady Gaga, I love all her music, but when she "hung" herself in one of her performances of papparazzi I was very disturbed and could not listen to the song for awhile without thinking of that....

I don't like the shock value.

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A lot of people felt that way for the performance. Im in love with Gaga, obsessed. And it freaked me out. But her's was different. She had a message she was putting across...he was just being a...well...homo..

Like, if you know the message behind her song, you get the 'hanging'. And it's artistic and theatric, and that's how she is. She's like that in all of her performances and most of her music videos. She's just like that and artistic. He's gross and does it to be gross and perverted...and he gives a bad face to gays.

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Oh yeah, here's a video of his performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fATzGwFJY

I think the song is catchy, and I would probably like it if he didn't sing it, and if I didn't dislike him so much. I know it's a bit biased. But still...this guy disgusts me, but so many people are like, "OMG ADAM LAMBERT!" It sucks he felt the need to be like that last night. He has an AMAZING voice. I mean, he really, really does, and I never really noticed that until the very begining of his performance last night. But he threw his voice out the window and decided to just act like a douche.

And you know, I may even have really liked him, if he wasn't such a poster boy for gay people. I don't think he wants to be. But when you come out like he does, and you make it a point to show the world how gay you are, you're going to be pushed into that role, whether you like it or not. Like Ellen DeGeneres(who is a married lesbian) or Cyndi Lauper(who is straight) or Lady Gaga(who loves everyone, lol), they are like poster people for MY community. And they are GOOD poster people. I mean, some things Lady Gaga does, like the hanging, could be considered questionable, but overall, these three women are really out there fighting for the gay community. And they understand that whether they want to or not, they are people that people are going to look at to represent the gays. And so far, I think they are all three doing a great job. They make us look like people. Not like a bunch of homos running around in leather, having big gay orgies.

Another reason it is so important for our poster people to look respectful and act respectful, is because there's really not a lot of gay people in the world. What is it, like 1 percent of people classify as gay? But when people see just those guys at the gay club acting ridiculous, or they see people like Adam Lamber acting perverted like that, it makes us look bad, because people don't see people like me, or my best friend. I mean, I'm obviously a lesbian, but I don't go around wearing a million flags and making out with every chick I see, like some lesbians I have met. And my friend, you wouldn't know for sure if he was gay or not from meeting him. He looks like a regular guy...not that guy that everyone notices at the gay pride parade in the high heals, thong, and taxi driver leather cap, who is probably on his way to a bondage gay club like Rip Cord.

I'm kind of venting now, hahahaha. Sorry. I got to thinking about people like that, and it bothers the hell out of me.

[Sarah]

Oh wow. That's.. Insane.. And inappropriate.

I completely agree Ariel.

(I've become very centrist/libertarian/open minded over the past year)

There is such a difference between this and Lady Gaga.. Lady Gaga is performance art, and has talent.. Whereas his.. Is sex based.. And.. Not that great. It's really a shame.

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(I like your picture, lol)

Yeah, like..his voice, I thought it was good, but he sang soooo horridly. I was a bit sad that it was so bad, and ontop of that, it was offensive. And I love to watch two men make out, but there's a time and a place. Time: After school, Place: Home.